ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔physician - ✔✔MD or DO, graduate from accredited school, licensing exam
completed internship
✔✔DO osteopathic medicine - ✔✔musculoskeletal system like correction of joint
tissues, holistic
✔✔MD (medical doctor) - ✔✔allopathic medicine, medical treatment is active
intervention
✔✔Advanced practice nurses (APNs) - ✔✔Nurses who have education and clinical
training beyond that required for an RN. 4 types
✔✔Nonphysician practitioners (NPPs) - ✔✔less advanced training than physicians but
more than registered nurse, don't engage in entire range of primary care, deal with
cases requiring expertise of physician
✔✔allied health professionals - ✔✔Technicians and Assistants
Technologists and Therapists
✔✔technicians and assistants - ✔✔less than 2 years post secondary education, trained
to perform procedures, require supervision, ensure care plan evaluation occurs
✔✔technologists and therapists - ✔✔evaluate patients, diagnose problems, develop
treatment plans, skill development in teaching procedural skills to technicians
✔✔public health professionals - ✔✔focus on treating community, access to health care,
injury issues, etc. biostatistics, epidemiology, health services admin, health education
science, environmental health
✔✔community health workers - ✔✔varying roles that include both socially oriented
tasks of natural helpers and the clinical tasks of physician extenders, rigorous training
and system of advancement for education
✔✔health service administrators - ✔✔Employed at various levels of organizations
Manage complex integrated delivery organizations, responsible for operational, clinical,
and financial outcomes of whole organization, bachelors and masters levels
✔✔Consumer Purchaser Alliance - ✔✔-Promotes the use of performance measurement
in health care